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"Then why does mensa also mean O table?" I inquired, "and what does O table mean?" "Mensa, O table, is the vocative case," he replied. "But why O table?" I persisted in genuine curiosity. "O table - you would use that in addressing a table, in invoking a table." And then seeing that he was not carrying me with him, "You would use it in speaking to a table." "If you are impertinent, you will be punished and punished let me tell you very severely," was his conclusive rejoinder.

-- Winston Spencer Churchill, My early life: a roving commission (London 1930), p. 25


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